track scale

A scale which weighs a section of railway track with the load thereupon. track-scout, s. [TRACK SCOUT.] track-way, s. A tramway (q. v.). trăck (1), v. t. [TRACK, 8.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. To follow, when guided by a trace, or by the footsteps or marks of the feet. "His tawny muzzle tracked the ground And his red eye shot fire." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , iii. 15. 2. To follow when guided by signs of something which has pa ed along; to trace. "It was often found impo ible to track the robbers to their retreats." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. iii. II. Naut .: To tow or draw, as a ve el or boat, by means of a rope. "The bodily training obtained by rowing, tracking, and portaging."- London Standard. *trăck (2), v . t . [For tract , v. (q. v.)] To protract, to delay. "By delaies the matier was alwaies tracked & put over. - Strype: Eccles. Mem. Henry VIII . (Orig.). No. 13. trăck-age (age as Ig), s . [Eng. track (1), v.; -age.] The drawing or towing of a boat; towage. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. tracker trăck-er, s . [Eng. track (1), v.; -er.] One who tracks or traces; one who pursues or hunts by following the tracks or traces of a person or animal. "A staff of first-cla black trackers were imported from Queensland." - Leisure Hour , March, 1885, p. 193. trăck-le , a. [Eng. track , s.; -le .] 4142 (1) Oxford Tracts : [TRACTARIAN ISM.] (2) Religious Tract Society : A society, founded in England in 1799, for the purpose of publishing and circulating religious tracts and books at home and abroad. It is conducted by a committee composed of an equal proportion of members belonging to the tractional and Isaac Williams (1802-65); and one celebrated Cambridge man, Hugh James Rose (1795-1838). On July 14, 1833, Keble preached an A ize Sermon, entitled the National Apostasy , at Oxford, which so moved Newman, that he arranged a meeting of the clergy named above at Rose's rectory at Had 1. Having no track; unmarked by footsteps or tions of Protestant di enters, elected at a public tracks; untrodden, untraveled. 2. Leaving no trace; that cannot be tracked. "I see my way, as birds their trackle way." R. Browning: Para cels us, i. trăck-lě -lý, adv . [Eng. trackle ; -ly.] In a trackle manner; without a track. trăck-le -ne , subst. [Eng. trackle ; -ne .] The quality or state of being trackle or without a track.